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title: Real talk, what did the girl do while mom worked? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, what did the girl do while mom worked? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1360 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 20: the father leaves, returns with gifts, and the mother falls ill» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 20: th…

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Real talk, what did the girl do while mom worked?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Real talk · **What happens:** work

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1360 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 20: the father leaves, returns with gifts, and the mother falls ill» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1360-pg4018-part20/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t9:1
# text = Real talk, what did the girl do while mom worked?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	mom	mom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past · do-support | Real talk |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Played games

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t9:o1:1
# text = Played games
1	Played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Carried water from the well to the house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t9:o2:1
# text = Carried water from the well to the house
1	Carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | participle |  | water |  | the well |  | to the house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme from well=Initial\_Location to house=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sat quietly and watched the snow fall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t9:o3:1
# text = Sat quietly and watched the snow fall
1	Sat	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | Sat | the snow fall |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Helped cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t9:o4:1
# text = Helped cook
1	Helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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